Re: Spaces in file and directory names.

["Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery hilfy ece cmu edu>]

In message <yd67becsgc.fsf@euler.adams.com>, Gisli Ottarsson writes:
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| Please lets not talk about this any more.  I am convinced.  Spaces are
| an essential ingredient in any good file and directory name.
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Don't be a smartaleck (although the "here's a nickel, get yourself a better 
shell" responses weren't much better...).

Nobody's claiming that spaces are *good*; the reality is that they're 
*inescapable* in the world of people used to Macintosh and Windows 9x/NT.  
Complain all you like, but learn to live with them --- your users won't give 
you much of a choice.  (And your scripters might be forced to learn proper 
quoting; dunno about you, but I find that any script with loose quoting is a 
potential security hole when run by root.)

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